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Ruth Jones A Troubled Marriage Summary

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“Law Professor Ruth Jones has gone so far as to suggest that courts should appoint guardians for women who have been coercively controlled, because their judgment has been so impaired and their autonomy so extinguished as to render them incapable of protecting themselves or separating from their partners” (A Troubled Marriage, Pg.121.) I would completely agree with Professor Jones. How could one argue against this? Philosophers have defined autonomy “as the theoretical capacity for self governance, the actual condition of self-governance, the ideal of self-governance in state of absolute freedom, and a set of rights the undergird the ability to establish sovereignty over the self” (A Troubled Marriage, Pg. 119.) The abuser has taken almost
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